Energy and the Earth
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Since the Finkel review was announced it has been open season for notion building in the energy space. While Malcolm has been pumping Snowy 2.zero, Craig has been promising death by renewables, quite literally…
In the third in my series on the crisis besetting the National Electricity Market (NEM) in eastern Australia (see Part 1 & Part 2), I look at some evidence for how the market itself has played a role…
“Flabbergas” in Beijing The Sichuan basin is one of China’s premier shale gas plays, and when it comes to developing Chinese resources, state-owned enterprises like Sinopec have the inside running. I met…
In the second in my series on the crisis besetting the National Electricity Market (NEM) in eastern Australia, I look at the tightening balance of supply and demand. Australia’s NEM is witnessing an unprecedented…
What energy crisis? Who could forget the energy “crises” that affected electricity supply across south-eastern Australia last year. Firstly the Tasmanian crisis, following the Basslink outage in December…
The European Commission’s latest Quarterly report on electricity markets makes sobering reading down under. Over the last year wholesale electricity prices have been falling just about everywhere across…
Mark July 7th as a red letter day in Australia’s tortuous path to decarbonisation - a day of special significance and opportunity. The causes and consequences of the wild gyrations on the South Australian…
In an entertaining and somewhat chaotic episode of ABC’s Q&A (Monday 15th August) pitting science superstar Brian Cox against climate contrarian and global conspiracy theorist and now senator Malcolm…
The strangeness of last Sunday … Has there ever been better times for our electricity utilities? Sunday is typically pretty subdued in terms of electricity demand. Consequently Sunday wholesale electricity…
In case you had forgotten, electricity prices were a really big deal in the last federal election campaign in 2013, albeit often disguised under the rubric of axe the tax. Then Coalition spokesmen quite…